Ride along with a
motor officer as he patrols the "City of Angels…"
Retired LAPD Officer Bill Wilhelm
says....
"Being a police
officer in a big city is having a front row seat to the greatest show on
earth. I was a police officer for the great city of Los Angeles from
1953 to 1973.
Even among law enforcement officers">
Ride along with a
motor officer as he patrols the "City of Angels…"
Retired LAPD Officer Bill Wilhelm
says....
"Being a police
officer in a big city is having a front row seat to the greatest show on
earth. I was a police officer for the great city of Los Angeles from
1953 to 1973.
Even among law enforcement officers, motor cops are somewhat of a
minority and most police departments don’t even have them…but it was the
only job I ever had that I didn’t have to push myself out the door each
time I went to work.
Retirement was the thing that eventually separated me from it. So, I
invite you to come along with me and share one cop’s view of one heck of
an interesting career in the City of Angels."
Wilhem's memoir will debut at the Public Safety Writers
Conference in Las Vegas, April 19-22, 2007
Publishers Special $8+ s/h
After serving in the Marine Corps during WWII,
Wilhelm joined the Los Angeles Police Department. For twenty years,
eighteen as a motor officer, he patrolled LA’s streets and freeways,
logging more than one million miles without a preventable accident.
"Bill's short stories as a motor officer for the LAPD are an historical
account of man against machine, odds and circumstances. To have ridden a
million-plus miles...is a tribute to the grit and dedication of those
road warriors of the era." Melvin W.
Mouser, Retired California Police Chief
